The bottom line here is that the month-to-month volatility in the durable orders data is such that the true information content in a single report is very small -- there's just too much noise.
Quotes about month-to-month (16 Quotes)
This is why we really emphasize people getting at least a yearlong lease. Month-to-month is dangerous, especially in Florida, because so many rental properties are being converted into condominiums. That reality can really surprise renters and hit them hard.
We're seeing quiet confidence building on a month-to-month basis. Good people are getting harder to find, and you have to make sure that you pay them appropriately.
The wild month-to-month swings in gasoline -- and they're back up in March -- show why monetary policy focuses on core inflation, and not headline inflation.
We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it . . . . That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago.
We've asked them repeatedly to produce a lease. A lease shows that there will be a continuity of care, that they'll be there, and not just on a month-to-month basis.
I don't put a lot of faith in the month-to-month swings in the trade data, but we had expected a modest widening in the gap. This narrowing will feed into a little bit more positive reading to second-quarter GDP.
For the rest of 2002, we're not expecting any big movements in the month-to-month sales pace, but we still expect above-normal rises in home prices due to a persistence of lean housing inventories on the market,
Hillary Clinton is getting a little bit of controversy because she has the most expensive hometown office rent - over 500,000 a year. She's in a one-year lease in the office, as opposed to her marriage, which is on a month-to-month.
Since Vista slipped and missed the holiday season in 2006 I have been wondering Does it really matter if Vista is available for consumers on Super Bowl or Easter Sunday It would seem to me that consumer sales month-to-month are probably pretty consistent until there is a back to school spike (late summer, early fall), and then a holiday spike (post-Thanksgiving).
There are always going to be month-to-month variations. It's like a losing baseball team They win two games in a row and they've got a winning streak.
The month-to-month gas price hike was driven primarily by increasing oil prices and speculation over adequate production. Higher gasoline and oil inventories have eased these concerns. However, when gas stations begin to sell the more expensive summer blend fuel in March, prices may start to increase again.
Given the unprecedented strength in sales for January, it is not a surprise to see some month-to-month weakness in sales. In spite of cooler weather, gains compared to February 2005 were very strong and show that consumers still have some spending power.
While fires remain higher than we would want them to be, the trend of lower month-to-month increases shows that our increased attention and efforts to remove debris from the roadbed is being met with some success.
We know small businesses struggle with cash flow and tend to live month-to-month.
We think the ISM services number is one of the worst monthly pieces of data there are. On a month-to-month basis, it has no correlation with service sector employment, and on a quarter to quarter basis, it has no correlation with service sector gross domestic product.